Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism)

c. 1800 BC · Babylon

A four-sided clay prism listing the kings of Sumer from when ‘kingship descended from heaven’ to the Old Babylonian period, mentioning the Flood.

Date

c. 1800 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Larsa

Where it is today

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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